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Well since Greg was mentioning the lack of Halloween spirit here... and I was musing about the upcoming Gamma World revised game from WotC, I thought I'd start a thread. It's not strictly a Halloween thread but it involves monsters.

I'm a big old kid. Almost anything I like today has a basis in my childhood. One of the things I know I was fascinated about ever since I was a kid was monsters/creatures.

I remember when I was a young boy, my grandma reading to me old tales of Japanese folklore. Sure I liked the heroes like Momotaro, but I think I was more interested in the pictures of the oni and tengu and all the stuff that was in the chest in the Urashima Taro story. When I started reading about dinosaurs and creatures of the abyssal plains it made me want to study monster-like creatures even more. I would wait in anticipation for the weekly kaijin to show up on the late afternoon tokusatsu shows to watch Kikaider & Kamen Rider V3 beat them up. And my mind almost exploded in '77 when I saw the Monster Manual and the Star Wars cantina scene in the same year.

So I thought I'd start a thread about creatures and monsters; both real and imagined. If any of you like that sort of stuff (I hope there are other folks besides me here) please post.

Funny, I love old cheesy monster films and comics (though I really love the designs of the old Marvel monsters more than their stories), dinosaurs, deep sea creatures, weird insects, kaijin and kaiju... but never got into vampires or zombies both currently popular...

Balaur bondoc (Romanian pronunciation: [baˈla.ur bonˈdok][2]) is a uniquely specialized species of carnivorous (theropod) dinosaur. It lived in what is now Romania during the latter part of the Late Cretaceous. Balaur was described by scientists in August 2010, and was named after the balaur, a dragon of Romanian folklore. It is known from a single partial skeleton representing the type specimen. Having been described as a "beefy version of the predatory Velociraptor",[3] its name is Romanian for 'stocky dragon'.

Seventy million years ago, world sea levels were higher, and the location where its fossils are found was an off-shore part of the European archipelago called Haţeg Island. Unlike its other relatives within the dromaeosaur family, which includes Velociraptor, Deinonychus, and the four-winged Microraptor gui, this raptor had not just one but two large, retractable, sickle-shaped claws on each foot, and its limbs were proportionally shorter and heavier than those of its other relatives. Given these and nearly twenty other derived traits, the new genus Balaur was created for this one species. As with other dinosaurs from Haţeg, such as Magyarosaurus, a dwarf sauropod,[4] its aberrant features are argued to show the effects of its island habitat on its evolution.

Their fucking entire jaw extends forward. Normally, they look like a fairly regular shark until those jaws whip out. The first I ever heard about these things was on some Sci-Fi channel monster movie shitfest, and I said to myself. "No. No, there's no way that's an actual thing." But it is.

Then, there's the Frilled Shark, which sounds like some wussy bitch-tittied shark that favors ruffles and lace, but which looks like a cross between a shark, an eel and a much more fucked up looking shark:

and which has teeth that look the fuck like this:

It's creatures like this that prove there is no God, because I don't know who in the fuck could have created this shit, if they were all loving and what-not. Don't even get me started on Architeuthis Rex. A giant goddamn squid with swiveling hooks instead of suckers?

Are you shitting me?

The entire reason I started eating fried calamari was just so I could say I ate something that preys upon humans. If i ever get devoured by a giant squid, my last words will be "Yeah bitch, but I ate more of you than you ate of me!"

Why does this muthafucka need hooks? That swivel?

That's why sperm whales are cool. Not because they have an awesome name that caused me no end of amusement as a kid. But because they throw the fuck down with the Architeuthis Rex and whup its ass. And eat the giant fuckfaced bastards.

So, I dunno. Those are some real-ass monsters. Even Godzilla looks at these muthafuckas like, "Dude. Serious?"

"You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,And now and then stab, as occasion serves."

Their fucking entire jaw extends forward. Normally, they look like a fairly regular shark until those jaws whip out. The first I ever heard about these things was on some Sci-Fi channel monster movie shitfest, and I said to myself. "No. No, there's no way that's an actual thing." But it is.

Then, there's the Frilled Shark, which sounds like some wussy bitch-tittied shark that favors ruffles and lace, but which looks like a cross between a shark, an eel and a much more fucked up looking shark:

and which has teeth that look the fuck like this:

It's creatures like this that prove there is no God, because I don't know who in the fuck could have created this shit, if they were all loving and what-not. Don't even get me started on Architeuthis Rex. A giant goddamn squid with swiveling hooks instead of suckers?

Are you shitting me?

The entire reason I started eating fried calamari was just so I could say I ate something that preys upon humans. If i ever get devoured by a giant squid, my last words will be "Yeah bitch, but I ate more of you than you ate of me!"

Why does this muthafucka need hooks? That swivel?

That's why sperm whales are cool. Not because they have an awesome name that caused me no end of amusement as a kid. But because they throw the fuck down with the Architeuthis Rex and whup its ass. And eat the giant fuckfaced bastards.

So, I dunno. Those are some real-ass monsters. Even Godzilla looks at these muthafuckas like, "Dude. Serious?"

Cool.

Speaking of cool/freaky jaws, the dragonfly nymph has a kick ass set of jaws...

misac wrote:How can someone not like vampires? What's the matter with you? They're probably my favorite monsters but at certain times when I was a kid I liked werewolves just as much or maybe a little more.

The problem with werewolves is that their look is very inconsistent in movies. They rarely look cool. I think I prefer when they just turn into wolves.

My favorite giant monster is Gamera. I always liked the huge defensive value his shell gave him. And he can fly!

What't the matter with me? I'm not lame I guess.

Dunno, just never got into them. Guess my first exposure was the old Universal monsters type... guy with a white face, fangs and a tux. *shrug* boring. Only cool vampire is Dracula from Billy and Mandy.

I like Gamera too. He was death blossom before death blossom was cool.

I also liked the designs of Gigan and Megalon. Ghidora has a cool design too.

I had the distinct pleasure of illustrating no less than 75 monsters for Wizards' upcoming game: Gamma Wolrd! Here is the first and only page I can show at this time. Gamma World comes out October 19! I'll post more monsters then.

Goddamn land shark...

"You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,And now and then stab, as occasion serves."

Dunno, just never got into them. Guess my first exposure was the old Universal monsters type... guy with a white face, fangs and a tux. *shrug* boring. Only cool vampire is Dracula from Billy and Mandy.

I like Gamera too. He was death blossom before death blossom was cool.

I also liked the designs of Gigan and Megalon. Ghidora has a cool design too.